Tag Archives: Koniag

Last week, Koniag announced a $50,000 donation to support COVID-19 response efforts for Alaska Native tribes and other beneficiaries on the Kodiak archipelago. President of Koniag, Shauna Hegna, says the corporation has met with tribal leaders and village corporation leaders four times since the beginning of the pandemic, and narrowed down their top concern to food security. Part of the …

Kodiak elders gather at the Afognak Native Corporation building for Koniag’s annual elder luncheon. (Photo by Mitch Borden/KMXT) Mitch Borden/KMXT On Saturday, people gathered at the Afognak Native Corporation building to celebrate the contributions of Kodiak’s Alutiiq elders. Koniag Incorporated, Kodiak’s native regional corporation, hosted the event and got to make a particularly exciting announcement at this year’s elder luncheon. …

A fishing boat passes by Port Lions. (Photo by Bo Joyner / U.S. Air Force) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Governor Bill Walker recently selected his nominations for two seats on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and chose Tom Panamaroff as an alternate. Panamaroff is Koniag’s regional and legislative affairs executive and says Koniag has become more involved in the council’s process …

Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak Archipelago’s Native Corporation, Koniag, recently acquired the company Glacier Services Incorporated, which creates software for oil companies. This is the second company Koniag owns that provides services to the oil industry. Ron Unger is the current CEO of Koniag, he says one of the reasons the corporation acquired Glacier Services was its values align with Alutiiq …

Mitch Borden/KMXT Shauna Hegna became Koniag, Inc.’s new president at the beginning of September after its former president and CEO, Elizabeth Perry, announced she’d be resigning. Hegna is originally from Port Lions and was Koniag’s executive vice president of shareholder services and lands management. She loved rolling up her sleeves and serving Koniag shareholders in that position, but as president …

Mitch Borden/KMXT Elizabeth Perry will resign as the Chief Executive Officer of Koniag Incorporated this December. According to a Koniag press release, she’s taken a position at a nonprofit in the southwest, which will allow her to be closer to family Perry says,  “Leaving Koniag is bittersweet as its employees and shareholders have become my second family over my nearly …